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360: Comparing the Incidence of Taxes and Social Spending in Brazil and the United States - Working Paper 360

Sean Higgins

359: Does Development Reduce Migration? - Working Paper 359

Michael Clemens

358: The Health Financing Transition: A Conceptual Framework and Empirical Evidence - Working Paper 358

Victoria Fan

357: Development as Diffusion: Manufacturing Productivity and Sub-Saharan Africa’s Missing Middle - Working Paper 357

Alan Gelb

356: Scarcity without Leviathan: The Violent Effects of Cocaine Supply Shortages in the Mexican Drug War - Working Paper 356

Juan Camilo Castillo

355: From Maize to Haze: Agricultural Shocks and the Growth of the Mexican Drug Sector - Working Paper 355

Oeindrila Dube

354: Migration as a Strategy for Household Finance: A Research Agenda on Remittances, Payments, and Development- Working Paper 354

Michael Clemens

353: Stunted Growth: Why Don't African Firms Create More Jobs?

Leonardo Iacovone

352: Rethinking the Financial Design of the World Bank

Devesh Kapur and Arjun Raychaudhuri

351: The Median Is the Message: A Good-Enough Measure of Material Well-Being and Shared Development Progress

Nancy Birdsall

350: Estimating Illicit Flows of Capital via Trade Mispricing: A Forensic Analysis of Data on Switzerland - Working Paper 350

Alex Cobham, Petr Janský and Alex Prats

349: Primary Schooling, Student Learning, and School Quality in Rural Bangladesh-Working Paper 349

M Asadullah

348: Is Anyone Listening? Does US Foreign Assistance Target People's Top Priorities?-Working Paper 348

Ben Leo

347: Supplementing REDD+ with Biodiversity Payments: The Paradox of Paying for Multiple Ecosystem Services - Working Paper 347

Jonah Busch

346: Savings by and for the Poor: A Research Review and Agenda-Working Paper 346

Dean Karlan

345: Can Results-Based Payments Reduce Corruption?-Working Paper 345

Charles Kenny

344: Social Capital and Disaster Recovery: Evidence from Sichuan Earthquake in 2008-Working Paper 344

Chung Wing Tse

343: Is It All About the Tails? The Palma Measure of Income Inequality-Working Paper 343

Alex Cobham

342: The New Transparency in Development Economics: Lessons from the Millennium Villages Controversy

Michael Clemens

341: The Geography of Inequality: Where and by How Much Has Income Distribution Changed since 1990?-Working Paper 341

Andy Sumner

340: Planning for Large-Scale Wind and Solar Power in South Africa: Identifying Cost-Effective Deployment Strategies Using Spatiotemporal Modeling-Working Paper 340

Kevin Ummel

339: Estimating Income/Expenditure Differences across Populations: New Fun with Old Engel's Law-Working Paper 339

Lant Pritchett

338: Promoting Millennium Development Ideals: The Risks of Defining Development Down-Working Paper 338

Lant Pritchett

337: The Strugglers: The New Poor in Latin America?-Working Paper 337

Nancy Birdsall

336: Context Matters for Size: Why External Validity Claims and Development Practice Don't Mix-Working Paper 336

Lant Pritchett

335: First Steps toward a Quality of Climate Finance Scorecard (QUODA-CF)-Working Paper 335

Cory Smith

334: When Is Prevention More Profitable than Cure? The Impact of Time-Varying Consumer Heterogeneity - Working Paper 334

Michael Kremer and Christopher Snyder

333: The Case for Direct Transfers of Resource Revenues in Africa - Working Paper 333

Shantayanan Devarajan and Marcelo Giugale

332: Mixed Method Evaluation of a Passive Health Sexual Information Texting Service in Uganda-Working Paper 332

Dean Karlan

331: Long-Run Price Elasticities of Demand for Credit: Evidence from a Countrywide Field Experiment in Mexico-Working Paper 331

Dean Karlan

330: Win Some Lose Some? Evidence from a Randomized Microcredit Program Placement Experiment by Compartamos Banco-Working Paper 330

Dean Karlan

329: Global Markets, Global Citizens, and Global Governance in the 21st Century

Nancy Birdsall

328: Is Information Power? Using Mobile Phones and Free Newspapers during an Election in Mozambique

Pedro Vicente

327: The Future of Global Poverty in a Multi-Speed World: New Estimates of Scale and Location, 2010–2030

Peter Edward and Sumner Kremer

326: The Effect of Foreign Labor on Native Employment: A Job-Specific Approach and Application to North Carolina Farms- Working Paper 326

Michael Clemens

325: Does Poor Mean Cheap? A Comparative Look at Africa's Industrial Labor Costs

Alan Gelb, Christian Meyer and Vijaya Ramachandran

324: Split Decisions: Family Finance When a Policy Discontinuity Allocates Overseas Work

Michael Clemens and Erwin Tiongson

323: China’s Development Finance to Africa: A Media-Based Approach to Data Collection

Austin Strange, Bradley Parks, Michael J. Tierney, Andreas Fuchs, Axel Dreher and Vijaya Ramacahndran

322: It‘s All About MeE: Using Structured Experiential Learning (“e”) to Crawl the Design Space

Lant Pritchett, Salimah Samji and Jeffrey Hammer

321: Scaling Up What Works: Experimental Evidence on External Validity in Kenyan Education

Jenny Aker

320: Cash or Coupons? Testing the Impacts of Cash versus Vouchers in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Jenny Aker

319: Macroprudential Regulations in Andean Countries

Arturo Galindo, Liliana Rojas-Suarez and Marielle del Valle

318: Macroprudential Regulations in Central America

Alejandro Izquierdo, Rudy Loo-Kung and Liliana Rojas-Suarez

317: Forest Conservation Performance Rating (fCPR) Report 2: Bad News for the Pan-Tropics and Everybody Else

David Wheeler

316: Nowhere Left to Hide? Stock Market Correlation, Regional Diversification, and the Case for Investing in Africa

Todd Moss

315: Identification for Development:The Biometrics Revolution

Alan Gelb

314: What Is Governance?

Francis Fukuyama

313: Europe Beyond Aid: Assessing Europe’s Commitment to Development

Owen Barder

312: Hoping to Win, Expected to Lose: Theory and Lessons on Microenterprise Development

Dean Karlan

311: The Impact of Taxes and Social Spending on Inequality and Poverty in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, and Peru: A Synthesis of Results

Nora Lustig